She’s courting death, and she’s not sure she wants to stop.
A thief must solve a murder, only to be blackmailed into a fake courting relationship with the dark and mysterious duke–her number one suspect.
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Three crests shadow the town of Bled’s hidden history. Vampire. Werewolf. Dragon.
Irina, the pig farmer’s daughter, can only suspect foul play when she finds her parents’ bodies shredded to ribbons. Then the mysterious duke returns, bearing the burden of his own shaded past, and a look darker than hunger. He catches her stealing truffles from his land, and blackmails her into a fake courting relationship to appease the royal court’s demand that he takes a wife.
So, she sets her sights on stealing his heart.
But her plan comes to a shrieking halt when a murder takes place in the castle so gruesome only a monster could be the culprit, and Irina is listed as the number one suspect. Now, she must clear her name or face death. Yet, the more she uncovers the secrets of Bled and its duke, secrets even her parents kept, the more she realizes she may have been courting death all along.
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